Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has …
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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
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Paperback, 256 pages
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Published April 1, 1992 by Abacus.
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The Wasp Factory
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published July 5, 2001 by Little, Brown.
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The wasp factory
184 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1984 by Houghton Mifflin.
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The wasp factory
184 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1998 by Scribner Paperback Fiction.
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Wasp Factory
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Published March 1, 1986 by Grand Central Pub.
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Eşekarısı Fabrikası
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Turkish language
Published Oct. 19, 2015 by Koridor Yayincilik.
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The Wasp Factory (Cult Listening)
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Published Sept. 17, 1998 by Argo.
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The Wasp Factory: A Novel
194 pages
Published July 2, 2013 by Simon & Schuster.
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Wasp Factory
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Published March 17, 2008 by Hachette Audio.
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The Wasp Factory
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Published March 19, 2001 by HarperCollins Audio.
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The Wasp Factory (Abacus 40th Anniversary)
Published April 4, 2013 by Abacus.
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The Wasp Factory
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Published July 20, 1986 by Random House Value Publishing.
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The Wasp Factory
Published March 19, 2001 by HarperCollins Audio.
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Bu feng qi
238 pages
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Published March 17, 2009 by Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.
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